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  1. gensetsteve
    I will get the details tomorrow took the units out about 18 months ago including all the change over and bypass panels. The whole lot cost 60 k when new. Have the quotes drawings and manuals.
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    It's basically just a ups. These can be picked up for peanuts second hand as after 3 years they have very little value. I have a two year old 25 kva single phase in stock for £1500. A 40 kva 3 phase 2 years old £2500 no batteries but you don't want second hand batteries any way. Have large battery cabinets if needed.
  3. gensetsteve
    The worlds gone mad. You can't beat them so you may as well join them. Hand over your taxes then get it back in grants if you are switched on.
  4. gensetsteve
    I prefer the dynamic but I don't think the pay load is any where near as good at least that was the case about 4-5 years ago.
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    I have towed with a loaded tri axle and they do tow extremely well. If you do buy one make sure ifor have bolted all the axles on facing in the same direction ! Otherwise your mpg will go out the window.
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    Depends what you are going to do with it. If you need ground clearance the wheels may be bigger on the ifor especially the 8 x 5 . If you are going to overload it on rough ground I would say go the ifor route. If you don't want to wake your neighbours in the morning will load it 80% and drive hundreds of miles and keep it till it dies get a bj
  7. gensetsteve
    I got my 16 ft bj flat bed from field fare nr Salisbury. They had a 3500 kg tipper in the show room. It looked a very nice trailer the only thing that worried me was cost of new axles when the rubber suspension gives in. Also you may not realise if you accidentally put far too much weight on there are no bump stops and the tyres will rub under the wheel arches. I think the bj is well designed and put together but not sure if they are as tough as an ifor. Worth comparing the thickness of the chassis.
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    I have the green lidl one works fine if you have some mechanical knowledge it goes wrong if your heavy handed and pushing against the plastic arm that controls the pawl. Use it as a measure and don't take too much off. If I have one badly chipped tooth I sometimes give it a tweek rather than grinding too much off the rest of the teeth.
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    I found the blades on the smaller bandsaws were more likely to cause problems. The deeper wider blades seem to control the wood not the other way round. I had loads of problems in the early days and advice on here helped lots. I found I had to turn the log regularly as the tension in the wood was capable of throwing the band of track and it would start climbing or dropping. The other thing that threw me was I had a few sticks that had been felled next to the root plate it took hours of changing blades swapping sticks before it dawned on me. It was all great fun and a huge learning curve. I cringe when a novice post on here wants to hire a machine to plank 40 tonnes in a day. A good skill to learn and you can't beat experience.
  10. gensetsteve
    I have a honda 4 strokes trimmer build quality is ok but I think they are made in China. Sounds like the fuel filter pick up may be hooked up. Mine runs clean like a watch starts first pull bit under powered and heavy. Valves need a tiny clearance and are sensitive to this adjustment. I have been running mine on a fully syn thin oil designed for top end Porsche engines and it seems to love it.
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    I had a woodmizer and remember once a band had come of or been knocked off then it would need to be reset even if still sharp. Once it's been off its a waste of time reusing. There was several adjustments on my band saw to stop this happening but I found the way to set it up was start at the begining and follow the manual. Trying to tweak a problem out used to make things worse.
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    Reading between the lines you may have a touch of depression which is made worst by alcohol. Could be worth a visit to your gp. Excercise especially on a cross trainer or similar would be good for you releasing positive endomorphenes. I was enjoying the strong bow a little too much a year ago and weaned my self of with aldi advocat gradually increasing the lemonade. A pint of larger a week if I am lucky now feel vastly better and sleep like a baby.
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    I am not keen on them. Once you have fitted them wrong the first time they are damaged and then difficult to use after that. My current 260 feels wrong when you turn it but you just have to turn it a bit further.
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    I find poly tunnels are great for drying timber. I can understand kiln drying with waste wood and sawdust. It's a shame the boilers can't be certified to 600 deg so they can burn the mountain of waste treated wood you see in the recycling centres. I think some customers sometimes just don't realise the logs will season at their property, it's like some mystical art form, if they are paying all that money they should be ready to burn. We live in an instant society so the public are no longer patient. You don't make wine or jam now you just buy two get one free.
  15. gensetsteve
    I had a 10 ft 3500kg trailer in the past and found it more difficult to load as you don't have room on the bed to move about. Get it wrong and the ride can be very unforgiving. I never found pick ups good for towing the leaf springs seem hard then the chassis does all the work. The Landrover stuff is good due to heavy chassis and coil springs also the low box without diff lock is good for traile work on hills.
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    I think a lot of it is luck I find the hilux un breakable but know a few people who had really bad experience with them. If you work a truck to death and it never gives a minutes trouble or leaks you tend to have a lot of confidence. Going to the expense of twin battery and 24 volt start would indicate they are built to a spec more that a price.
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    I guess you do the same as me with my waste oil and filters shop around for the best deal. Some times I pay to dispose of oil if the price is high enough I get a penny or so a litre.
  18. gensetsteve
    Does bone dry clean wood chip with no leaf in still have a value. I ask because when the price of wood chip was subsidised it makes it difficult to source wood to make kindling.
  19. gensetsteve
    Thanks for that I ruled that one out. If I buy a kindlet pro it could then be the best 8 inches you ever had
  20. gensetsteve
    :lol: loving it keep them coming
  21. gensetsteve
    All good ideas so far is this what they call blue sky thinking or thinking outside the kindling box. I like to produce a proffesional quality service or product but don't take it too seriously hence the name thanks for your ideas so far.
  22. gensetsteve
    I started selling logs about 10 years ago as a bit of a side line and a bit of fun so called it Loggywood. This served us well as it was easy to find on line as its a bit unusual. We stopped selling logs about 4 years ago and the kindling business has grown up into a good little business. I am thinking of giving it a new more grown up professional name do you think it's required and any ideas on what to call it?.
  23. gensetsteve
    Yes I think most people realise that. We all shop around especially on large purchases. But the country seems to buy foreign firewood to save 5 % at times. If I am spending £100 I often don't worry if the local business is 15-20% more expensive. The owner of our chippy asked for a price on 2 cu metres of firewood came to the yard to check it and asked us to price match a crate from Latvia which was ten pounds cheaper. I refused 2 weeks later he comes round looking for a free chopping block because the stuff is too big. I now get my fish and chips elsewhere. Our expensive greengrocer used to take £10 a week of me for veg. When he changed his kindling supplier he went elsewhere so now I get my veg in aldi while buying frozen cod. You can see where this is going. I think the problem is obvious the solution will be hard to find
  24. gensetsteve
    Hawthorn or some ash but not all. Some ash I have found to be no better than beech although well seasoned beech is fab.
  25. gensetsteve
    Loving the saw dust cannon. Could hire it out as a crow scarer

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